{"id":17848,"date":"2022-03-21T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17848"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:58","slug":"drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Drives\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>I got my tonsils out when I was five. Before that, I used to get ear aches a lot. It hurt when the wind blew in my ears so Mom made me wear old-fashioned kerchiefs that covered my head down to my shoulders. It hurt when I got water in my ears so Mom made me wear hideous bathing caps with spiky things poking out all over when I went swimming. I felt ugly and freakish and they didn\u2019t help my ear aches anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad loved convertibles and, often on Sundays, our family would go for long drives with the top down. That was torture because driving fast created wind. Back then, there were no seat belt laws, in fact most cars didn\u2019t even have seat belts. I\u2019d lie on the floor in the back of the car and there was nothing enjoyable about that. I was excluded from conversations because I couldn\u2019t hear what everyone else was saying. And, no matter where we went, the only scenery I saw was the floor or the sky, depending on which way I faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Mom drove during the week, she left the top up so at least I didn\u2019t suffer from the wind. Mike and I weren\u2019t allowed in the front and we\u2019d sit at opposite sides, close to the windows. Sometimes he\u2019d touch me or make faces at me, or I\u2019d do that to him, and that would set us off on a fight. Mom would yell at us to stop but, of course, that didn\u2019t end things. When we got to where we were going, she\u2019d smack us both to teach us a lesson. Once, when she was yelling at us, she backed into a car and that was our fault because we\u2019d distracted her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this day, I hate road trips. I don\u2019t get ear aches anymore and everybody I drive with gets along well but I don\u2019t understand why people like to drive just for the sake of driving. I feel the same about boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my tonsils out when I was five. Before that, I used to get ear aches a lot. It hurt when the wind blew in my ears so Mom made me wear old-fashioned kerchiefs that covered my head down to my shoulders. It hurt when I got water in my ears so Mom made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17870,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}